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Royalist John Blackavise, defeated both in battle and in spirit, returns home with little hope—until he finds himself captivated by the courageous, intelligent and beautiful Mary Florida. Unfortunately for Blackavise Mary is trapped in a loveless marriage. Until the sudden, violent death of her husband changes everything... Can the forthright Blackavise overcome defeat, espionage, bastardy and hatred and find his way to the woman of his urgent dreams?

Hugh Malahide wearily returns home from King Charles’s lost cause to find a young man dying on his doorstep. This is Tom, the ostracised black-sheep brother of Isabella Fentiman. But Tom repays Mahalide’s generosity in nursing him back to health by betraying him, stealing the Fentiman jewels, and placing Isabella in jeopardy. Armed only with grim determination and a charm-the-birds smile, Malahide sets about seduction, burglary and defying fate, hoping to right all wrongs and win the beautiful Isabella.

Joanna, beautiful and other-worldly, finds herself trapped with her consumptive husband and two girls on a small farm in North Yorkshire. Ground down by local prejudice, her husband’s bitter despair and the merciless demands of their loss-making farm, Joanna escapes into a fantasy world of exotic islands, faraway cities—and Sir Walter Raleigh. Her journey through trial and tragedy however leads to a hopeful and uplifting conclusion.

The Moon has been sucked through a wormhole in space and has arrived countless miles away from its proper place. The crew of Moonbase Alpha can only guess at the resultant devastation left behind on Earth. They must decide how best they can survive. Some Alphans find it difficult to let go of the notion of returning to Earth, others are facing the reality that they must find another home to ensure the survival of the human race. They can't survive on Alpha indefinitely.

Hidden in the midst of a remote Surrey village (at the top of the hill, opposite Budgens) is top-secret scientific research institute Clayton Grange. There, a team of bumbling boffins, led by the keen but hopeless Professor Linden Saunders, try to fulfil their government brief to solve the global fuel crisis, cheer people up and make war just a bit more gentle. Sadly, they're as rubbish at science as they are at life—but they're not going to let mere incompetence stop them from pushing the boundaries of human knowledge.